Dale Fleming

I hate the heroine. I streamed all the way through season 2 episode 3, and 15 minutes into episode 4 I decided I couldn't take it anymore. She is so self centered and narcissistic and thinks everyone owes her their support and assistance, to the detriment of their own self interests, that I couldn't take it. Her apologies are insincere. She feels no remorse over jeopardizing Duke's career or meddling with poor Ivy's new relationship with Mr. Potts. She's smarter than everyone. More entitled than everyone. More downtrodden than everyone. The fact that she's attractive just pisses me off even more because she thinks her cuteness is a hall pass for poor character. I realized that I don't care that she's a woman in a non-traditional role. She has almost no redeeming characteristics to counter her drive and ambition for recognition. At the end of the day, I realized I was watching because I liked the writing. I love the mysteries and the fact that the solutions are neither super obvious nor impossible to work out. And I like the Duke, except for his stupid habit of believing anything she tells him in the moment. After everything's over he says he can't trust her. But while on the case he let's her get away with everything and the people around him are equally weak when it comes to her. His continuing to let her get away unscathed with the lies and the using of people and the carelessness about his career and the selfishness is really a stretch. As intelligent as he is otherwise, you'd think he'd dump her. But he doesnt. So I will.

Sometimes irreverent, emotional, funny, but always surprising. Just what you want in a crime show. Ensemble cast is as compelling to watch as the lead, himself.

Heart palpitations throughout. The suspense was insane. The action super fun. I thought the villain reveal came too soon, only have the suspense level up yet again, right through to the end. Surprises all the way to the end ofnthe last episode.

Great revenge and whodunit in a military setting. The story is complicated, and the flashbacks and hallucinations can get confusing. But the suspense and the punishment meted out to the bad guys is totally engrossing. Pratt and Wu make a great combination on screen, and each does a great job in their own scenes. I loved it and would love tonsee a season 2. At first I couldn't figure out how there could possibly be a second season, but I read the book jacket for True Believer, Jack Carr's second book in the series, and I'm ready!

Episodes 1 and 2: Even though I known the fate of the lead characters, Disney manages to infuse suspense, particularly in the second episode. Also cool to see a black female villain using the powers ofnthe dark side. Very cool action sequences involving her. Obi Wan seems super depressed and of weak character, and that started to annoy me. It's hard to picture him as a wise, strategic, almost fearless hero. But I'm going to see if this part of his life is what develops those attributes. Princess Leia is a pain in the neck until she's not. Sooo cute, sooo smart. Easy tosee her becoming a fierce leader and a strong warrior. I'll be back next week.

Plot reminds me of a Southern Gothic William Faulkner story, where parallel stories of various characters who seem unrelated converge into a tragic resolution. What's missing is the "Jesus" character. In this story, almost everyone is flawed and tainted by the choices they make. I loved it. But I was an English major.

Satisfying and memorable conclusion to the Home trilogy, nostalgic and thrilling all at once. Big action scenes don't outshine the big emotions that these characters evoke. My emotional investment in Peter and FOS over these three films was totally worth it. Peter, MJ and Ned will go down in history as best "throuple" ever-when they pair up and as a group, the chemistry is off the hook and totally believable.

Fast paced. Good effects. Fun distraction without demeaning anyone. Depiction of strong young women who give as good as they get and do their fair share of saving the males in distress.

Reminds me of Scandinavian noir. Starts out as a grisly crime drama, immediately goes sideways. Then slow burning climb to an eery supernatural creep show involving ordinary people in insignificant places just going about their business while evil seeps in...Stephen King's happy place. Then a crescendo of fear with an ending that doesnt feel like a conclusion, and the unease lasts after episode 10's ending credits, and the little gem that follows, taking a page from Marvel's book. Loved it. But I love Scandi Noir. Proud of Jason Bateman. Watched him since he was a teenager. Cynthia Erivo and Ben Mendelsohn and Mare...forget it..the entire ensemble was perfect. 10 episodes gives you time to develop and identify personalities and care. Good job there. Good job HBO. I want tonsee Emmy nominations for Cynthia, Ben and Jason.

With so many flawed characters that I didn't really like, it was the storytelling that kept me. It was evenly paced, not too quick to miss characters develop (even the bad characters...), and not too slow to tempt me to skip to the end. Effective use if flashbacks, which sometimes turned down my judginess of present time bad acts, and sometimes ignited it. I was surprised. Reminded me of American Beauty I. The sense that you don't know what's behind those imposing upper middle class doors, nor what's really behind the story of "those people" who live in cars or live lives that are way different than ours. We are the same, absent a few missteps, pieces of bad or good luck, and support systems (or enablers).